Real/Surreal

Exhibition works

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  Federico Castellón (1914–1971), The Dark Figure, 1938. Oil on canvas, 17 × 26 1/8 in. (43.18 × 66.36 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 42.3. Photograph by Sheldan Collins

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  Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), The Old Bars, Dogtown, 1936. Oil on composition board, 18 × 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 37.26. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements

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  Paul Cadmus, Fantasia on a Theme by Dr. S., 1946. Egg tempera on composition board, 13 × 13 in. (33.02 x 33.02 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 47.1. © Jon F. Anderson, Estate of Paul Cadmus /VAGA, New York, NY. Photograph by Sheldan Collins

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  Philip Evergood (1901–1973), Lily and the Sparrows, 1939. Oil on composition board, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 41.42. Photograph by Sheldan Collins

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  George Tooker, The Subway, 1950. Egg tempera on composition board, 18 1/8 × 36 1/8 in. (46 × 91.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Juliana Force Purchase Award 50.23. © George Tooker

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  Ralston Crawford, Steel Foundry, Coatesville, Pa., 1936–37. Oil on canvas, 32 × 40 in. (81.3 × 101.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase  37.10

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  Jared French, State Park, 1946. Tempera on composition board, 24 7/16 x 24 1/2 in. (62.1 x 62.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Donnelley Erdman 65.78

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  Louis Guglielmi (1906–1956), Terror in Brooklyn, 1941. Oil on canvas mounted on composition board, 34 × 30 in. (86.4 × 76.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase  42.5

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  George C. Ault, Hudson Street, 1932. Oil on canvas, 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 33.40

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  Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 × 60 1/4 in. (89.4 × 153 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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  Edward Hopper (1882–1967), Seven A.M., 1948. Oil on canvas, 30 3/16 × 40 1/8 in. (76.7 × 101.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase and exchange  50.8. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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  Joe Jones (1909–1963), American Farm, 1936. Oil and tempera on canvas, 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase  36.144. © Estate of Joe Jones

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  Rockwell Kent, The Trapper, 1921. Oil on canvas, 33 1/4 × 42 7/8 in. (84.5 × 108.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase  31.258

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  Kay Sage (1898–1963), No Passing, 1954. Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 × 38 in. (130.2 × 96.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase  55.10

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  Charles Sheeler, River Rouge Plant, 1932. Oil and pencil on canvas, 20 3/8 × 24 5/16in. (51.8 × 61.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art; purchase 32.43

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  Yves Tanguy (1900–1955), The Wish, 1949. Oil on canvas, 36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest  63.46. © 2009 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York